Postman vers 11.18.3 "getting started" documentation

[The_Roo]

I'm trying to get started using APIs, so I downloaded and installed Postman, and created a login for myself. I looked in "about" and I have version 11.18.3, I guess that the latest, but all documentation available on the web shows a Postman screen very different to mine. For instance, the docs talk about a "gear" icon in the top right, but 11.18.3 doesn't have that and it seems I need to go to the left nav-bar to create things.

The result of this is that I can't get anything to work, I'm getting error 401 and worse, and I'm going no-where fast.

Is there a set of documentation/howtos/getting started that discussed the *latest* version of Postman, not something that appears to be years old?

Sorry if I sound a bit tetchy, but I've wasted so much time going down blind alleys I'm thinking of resorting to Python instead, but that looks even harder 🙂

[MartinS]

Hi, I have 11.18 which I believe is latest and this is what my postman screen looks like?

Are you using the very helpful Meraki postman collections?

Cisco Meraki | Public APIs | Postman API Network

M.

[The_Roo]

My Postman looks like yours, but all the "Getting Started" tutorials seem to be of a different (earlier) version, with a gear icon in the top right, from which a lot of actions are initiated. I have managed to find my way round some of the steps, but I'm getting myself lost in others

I have tried to use the Meraki collections, but my mishandling of the interface is defeating the object

[MartinS]

Is there anything in particular you're getting stuck on? If you're using the Meraki postman collection, make sure your environment has your dashboard API key (assuming it's the dashboard API you're interested in?) set against apiKey, and then with the collection open try sending a getOrganizations to see if the key works. From that call you can then set the OrgID in the environment and go the next layer down to try getOrgNetworks or getOrgDevices and on you go. 

[The_Roo]

I followed the instructions at https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/build/meraki-postman-collection-getting-started/getting-started/#...

then when I got to

• Open the Meraki Dashboard API v1 collection
• Select List the Organizations endpoint
• Hit Send and you will see a list of organizations.

I got the following message, and anything I try seems to put me in a similar place

[The_Roo]

So I've made a little progress. I've set up some variables:

And issued a successful GET for the Organization:

But when I try to extend the same logic and look at clients on the network, using the Meraki collection, I get an error:

I guess it’s to do with the ” :networkId” but I tried to replace that with something else, but I keep getting the same error. I think if I can understand were the “: variable”  part of the GET comes from, I should be OK

[MartinS · Accepted solution]

Hi, Your Org ID in your environment should be the 'id' number returned from GetOrg. To run a Network based call, you'll need a networkId variable, then call GetOrgNetworks to get the list of networks in your org, pick one and put the Id of that in your variables. Same for the device based calls. Once you have a valid OrgId, NetworkId and DeviceId you should find you can make all the Get calls

[The_Roo]

Hi Martin,

That last update was the key to success. I now have it working as expected, and while I'm not quick with it, I can make it work, and practice will help. Thanks for your help (and patience!)

Roo

[MartinS]

Very happy to help!